Who doesn’t like an anthology? I have a penchant for themed anthologies mostly, as I sometimes find anthologies which collate a load of stories together seem a little disjointed, choking the flow to other stories, jarring and hampering my enjoyment (ever so slightly may I add). But what we have here in the Best British
Years ago, I read Royle’s first collection of short stories, Mortality, and thought him too in thrall to JG Ballard, and if Royle hasn’t totally come out of Ballard’s short story shadow in Ornithology, he does reach more convincingly for his own form and style. In ‘Unfollow’ we get the alienation and anonymity of the
